Let me introduce myself ...

[Thomas Huber]

Sorry Ståle, seems like the procedure only works with German keyboards!

[annew]

Press Alt and type 0229 for å ! Well it works for me...

[Maggi Young]

Thomas' trick won't work for me, Anne. I just get annoyed bongs from the machine! It is easier for me to use copy and paste when I want to use these names in their "proper" fashion. It is great to have you here, Ståle, that is easy to say!
It is good of the overseas forumists to be so patient with us daft Brits!

[mark smyth]

a late hello to all those I havent 'met' before

[Casalima]

I live in the normally relatively green and damp north-west corner of the Iberian peninsula, in a town with ambitions to become the gardening capital of Portugal http://www.festivaldejardins.cm-pontedelima.pt/. Locally we can't grow real cold lovers (no meconopsis ), no real chalk lovers (nice acid soil in general) and no pure tropicals - but apart from that almost anything else! Frosts only on clear nights.

I am slowly building up a plant collection on my two balconies and one day, one day!!!, I hope to be able to move myself and my plants to land I have in the country. I am particularly fond of bulbs, but appreciate almost everything else too. My avatar is a local Aquilegia growing on my land - dichroa I think.

For the Alt + number codes, you have to use the key pad, I think. They work for me.

Chloe

[Andrew]

Yes that's right Chloe, the key/numeric pad (the numbers on the right of the keyboard for the non-technical, assuming a 'standard' keyboard).

[Maggi Young]

AH HAA! It all becomes clear now! So, I have tried  it and it works... no more bongs! Why didn't Thomas say this in the first place? And please don't tell me it's because everyone else KNEW it!!

[Lesley Cox]

å Works for me too. Maggi, aren't we all daft? or we wouldn't be here in the first place. I'm writing drivel this morning to take my mind off my two friends in Australia's Blue Mountains. They are both surrounded by bush fires at the moment. Don's house is very close but I think he can get out but Huw can't, the single road to his house is cut off by back-burning. I'm worried sick for him.

[Maggi Young]

Bad news out of Australia for your friends, Lesley. Let us hope that it all ends with them safe.
Bush fires are so deadly, we should be jolly grateful if we're in an area where we need not fear our lives and homes being lost in such events.

[Staale]

Hope your friends and their homes come away unharmed, Lesley!
 
I am still not signing on to the 'daft' cathegory (not voluntarily, anyway) I work on a lap top. It has a key lock tab, but it makes no more sense than before. Though I'm sure one can alter the system to make it work, I'm too lazy to try.

More presentations, please!

[Thomas Huber]

Uuuups - sorry Maggi. I've never tried anything else than the key-pad 

Welcome Chloe!

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Ok, my time to introduce myself.

My wife Rita and I live in Harelbeke - Belgium (Dutch/Flemish speaking part of the country) with our two grown up daughters Elke and Wendy (24 and 21) being visited much too often by successive boyfriends...

I (we) got into Alpines some 15 odd years ago and have since been piling up rocks in our front and back garden, much to the disbelief of our neighbours...

I love many different genera that I grow more or less succesfully.  Meconopsis is one of them but it's quite difficult to get them through our occasional hot spells, then tere's Lewisia, Dianthus, Saxifraga, Aquilegia, Hepatica etc... etc... 

I do not have an Alpine house  so everything I grow has to be able to cope with all that nature trows at it.  One exception : my Pleione collection that I keep dry and frostfree in winter and early spring in our veranda.

I love this forum, have learned lots and lots of interesting things here and I hope to post more pix in the coming season.

Three cheers for the SRGC.

[John Forrest]

Welcome Hans. You certainly are a fully paid up member to the plantaholics fraternity and so are amongst friends. You don't have your second name on your profile but perhaps you do not wish to publish it.
Good job I'm sitting down with all those numbers and keys, like being back at school but on the receiving end!! Is there a list than one can call up to show the alternative letters and signs. Degrees C is perhaps the one I would like to know but am intrigued by other possibilities.
Nice to see Luc's 'curriculum vitae' but he is a longstanding member of the SRGC Forum family.

John, here is the tip I use for degree signs when I'm writing the Aberdeen Group Newsletter. Our local weather-man, John Lupton keeps great records and lets us use them each year. He cheats by giving me his report in pen on paper so I had to find the key to convert for typing! Cheers,Maggi

To type a degree symbol to show degrees celsius etc,
At appropriate spot, type ctrl+@,space  to obtain , e.g. 23.5°
I must confess, this may only work in "Word" applications... we'll see!

[Thomas Huber]

John, you can see a list of all symbols in Microsoft Word.
I only have the German version, so I can't tell you exactly what to click in
the English version, but it has to be something like: add / symbols...

A new window will open, where you can choose your symbol. You will
get the key in the lower part of the window by clicking on the symbol.

Hope this helps!

[SueG]

to put symbols and a huge range of other 'things' into Word docs you do (from the menu in Word)
Insert
Symbol
you then have the options of lots of fonts - degrees celcius you want to use the font called (normal text) - you acn scroll the list up and down until you spot what you want, click on it, then click on the insert button and that's it.

take a look the Wingdings font too as that has useful things like arrows and thumbs up signs and aeroplanes (must be useful to someone)

Sue